After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances … remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the shift in the source of labor by econometrically testing the existence of … structural breaks in the flow of remittances in the MENA region. The change in the direction of remittance flows deprived several …

staggering amount of remittances outflow of the GCC economies plays a stabilizing role as a tacit monetary policy tool …. Incorporating remittances in the money demand equation results in a more robust model than otherwise. We further find that the …

The literature on remittances is large and growing. However, its focus has mainly been on the effects of remittance …

We investigate the responsiveness of remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to the changes in … price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real … economic activities in the receiving countries, this study emphasises the impact of remittances on the remitting countries. We …

remittances sent to rural households on consumption-type and investment-type expenditures. We apply propensity score matching to … account for the selection of households into receiving remittances, and estimate average treatment effects on the treated. We … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …